This footage was filmed and produced 17 March 2021.
These videos show the mourners of King Goodwill Zwelithini as they sing walking from Esgodlweni of Linduzulu to Esgodlweni kwakhethomthandayo in Njampela, South Africa.
The traditional leader of South Africa’s 12 million Zulu people, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has been laid to rest.
Zwelithini, 72, died from health problems related to diabetes last Friday (March 12) and he was buried in a traditional ceremony known as “ukutshalwa kweNkosi”, which is attended by only senior men of the royal family, many wearing leopard skins and colourful Zulu regalia. Reigning for more than 50 years, Zwelithini was the longest-serving monarch of the Zulu nation, the largest ethnic group of South Africa’s 60 million people. The KwaZulu-Natal province is where most of the country’s Zulus live.